Anne Fennell

Title

Distinguished Professor

Office Building

Office

254B

Mailing Address

McFadden Biostress Laboratory 254B
Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science-Box 2140C
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

Ph.D. | University of Minnesota
M.S. | University of Minnesota
B.S. | Iowa State University

Academic Interests

Grapevine bud dormancy and cold hardiness
Grapevine genetics and genomics
Plant physiology and molecular biology

Academic Responsibilities

HO411/511 Fruit Crop Production Systems (rotating crop topics: tree fruits, grapevine, brambles, native fruits, strawberries)
Bio/PS664 Molecular Plant Physiology (team taught)
PS763 Crop Physiology (Fennell, Gu, Nleya)
PS781 Graduate Seminar
HO/NUTR/PS 426/526 Production Wine, Beer Spirits

Committees and Professional Memberships

Committee Activities

University Promotion and Tenure
AHPS Executive Team
Organizer of International Plant and Animal Genome Conference Plant Dormancy Workshop 2016-2018
Mentor for students through NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Professional Memberships

Executive Committee Member and Co-PI of VitisGen3 Research
Executive Committee Member and Co-PI of USDA/AFRI CAP Research Project
Member of the National Committee of Visitors for NSF funded Viticulture and Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA) Center of Excellence (2013-present)
Advisory Committee Member of NSF funded Grape Research Coordination Network (2010-2013)
Member of the National Grape Research Alliance Natural Resources and Environmental Research Committee (2017-present)
South Dakota State representative for the NE1720 Multi-state coordinated evaluation of wine grape cultivars and cultivars (2008-2016 NE1020, NE1720 2017-present)

Awards and Honors

College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Outstanding Researcher, 2021
South Dakota State University Distinguished Professor, 2020
Faculty Award for Global Engagement (International Research, ��Ƶ), 2019
John Robertson Award, South Dakota Horticulture Society, 2017
College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences Distinguished Research Award, 2008
Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award of Merit (��Ƶ), 2008
Women of Distinction Faculty Award (��Ƶ), 2007
F.O. Butler Award for Excellence in Research (��Ƶ), 2006
ABS Dean’s Team Award for Entrepreneurship, Production, and Agritourism in Horticulture Specialty Crops, 2004
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (��Ƶ), 1997
ABS Dean’s award of research excellence in recognition of research contributions to the South Dakota’s new farm winery industry, 1997
Pi Alpha Xi Ornamental Horticulture Society, 1992

Grants

USDA-NIFA Acquisition of a GC-TQMS for Metabolomics Research and Teaching.
USDA-NIFA Completing the grapevine powdery mildew resistance pipeline: From genes on the shelf to sticks in the ground.
USDA-Specialty Crop Grant, Mitigating freezing damage in emerging wine and seedless table grapes during fall acclimation and spring deacclimation.
NSF MRI: Acquisition of a Heterogeneous High‐Performance Computing Cluster Driven by Computational and Data‐Intensive Multidisciplinary Research.
USDA-NIFA Establishing best practices to maximize yield of the culturally relevant Amelanchier (Juneberry).
NSF Research PGR: Adapting perennial crops for climate change: Graft transmissible effects of rootstocks on grapevine shoots.

Work Experience

(2020-present ) Distinguished professor, ��Ƶ, Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Department.
(2011-present) Professor, ��Ƶ, Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Department
(2002-2011) Department of Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape and Parks (HFLP)
(2010) Visiting professor to University of Verona, Verona, Italy
(2007) Visiting professor to INP - ESNAT, Castanet, France
(2000) Sabbatical faculty appointment, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
(1997-2002) Associate professor, ��Ƶ, Department of Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape and Parks
(1992-1997) Assistant professor, ��Ƶ, Dept. Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape and Parks

Areas of Research

Bud dormancy is an integral component of growth cycling, productivity and winter survival in perennial plant systems. It is an adaptive strategy for the survival of drought, high temperature, low temperature and freeze-dehydration stress. In a changing climate timing of dormancy induction and release are critical for sustainable production. Dormancy is not a static state, rather a dynamic phase of plant development that impacts the geographical range, yields and management strategies of many woody species, including grapevines (Vitis). My lab’s research programs are focused on the genetic, physiological and phenotypic aspects of grapevine bud dormancy, cold hardiness and chilling fulfillment. Specifically, to identify genes, pathways and genetic architecture which impact sustainable production of grapevine and other perennial systems. This knowledge is key to marker assisted selection of new materials, and identifying existing cultivars that are well-adapted to changing northern temperate environments and development of management strategies for sustainable production.

Proteome development in grapevine bud during dormancy induction.
Grapevine bud proteins and protein functional categories up-regulated in long (paradormant buds) and short (endodormant buds) photoperiods.

QTL mapping for enological traits.
Grapevine bud proteins and protein functional categories up-regulated in long (paradormant buds) and short (endodormant buds) photoperiods.

Grapevine bud dormancy.
Paradormancy maintenance and endodormancy induction in grapevine.

Unraveling the genetic underpinnings of the adventitious root system architecture (RSA) is important for improving own-rooted and grafted grapevine sustainability for a changing climate.
Root morphology QTL hotspots and enriched gene networks are identified.

Three grape berry enological traits mapped to candidate genes using an F2 mapping population.

Department(s)

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